Congratulations Valentyna! Below is your winner's badge. We'd like to invite you as a guest designer to a future challenge. Please contact Nonni at korttikarkuri @ gmail. com (without the spaces) within one week if you'd like to join us!

If you have Christmas themed projects you haven't linked up to challenges yet or you have already begun with your Valentine's Day projects you could enter them to our current challenge "Christmas is Love with All the Trimmings" here . Here's inspiration for you from our talented GD Shirley and some of our DT members. With these cards we'd like to wish you all Merry Christmas! We hope you'll have TIME OUT for relaxing and crafting during holidays. Thank you for your continuous support during our first year in blogland and see you again 2015 at TIME OUT Challenges!

Our first challenge of 2015 begins on January 8th and the winners of our current challenge are announced on January 15th.

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Before we introduce this challenge we would like to thank you all for your support in helping us grow our challenge since we started TIME OUT Challenges in March.

We also want to thank our wonderful Design Team who have worked so hard to help us grow TIME OUT and for each challenge have created such inspiring cards.

For our last challenge we want you to be 'inspired by words' and these words are:

Christmas is Love with all the Trimmings

You can be inspired by the whole phrase or just a one or two of the words. If you need more Christmas cards then just go with the word Christmas and make any kind of Christmas project. If you have finished all your Holiday cards why not go with 'Love' and make a Valentine's card. Trimmings....what could you do with that...perhaps Christmas day dinner or how about ribbons? I am sure you are all full of so many ideas.

Our Guest Designer this week is Shirley. Her blog Shirley-bee is just so full of creative and inspiring projects-take some TIME OUT and visit, you will come away ready to create!

Congratulations Chrissie, we loved your card! We'd like to invite you to guest design in a future challenge. Please contact Nonni at korttikarkuri gmail. com within a week if you would like to join us. Here's your winner's badge:

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Let me start this post by thanking everyone who entered our previous challenge. I think we hit our record number of entries! Great job from all of you. Remember to come back next Thursday to see if you won or got an honourable mention!

Our second last challenge before Christmas is a CASE (=copy and share everything) With Your Own Twist Challenge. The amazingly talented designer, a professional crafter that we are CASEing is Amy Wanford from Crafting Confessions. Let's read what Aimes tells about herself before taking a look at the beautiful card we are CASEing from her.

Hey! I'm Amy Wanford (aka Aimes and soon to be Amy Gray as I get married in January!) and I'm a lover of tea, toast and papercrafting here in Sheffield, England. I've always been a paper/stationery addict and was introduced to the wonderful world of cardmaking in 2008. My love of it has taken me on some crazy adventures from being on wonderful Design Teams (I'm currently on the Clearly Besotted Design Team), having my designs transformed into actual stamp sets and dies to purchase to recently taking leap of faith and embarking on a career change from teaching to being the Editor of the UK magazine, Simply Cards & Papercraft. And now, I'm delighted to be featured here today - thank you so much to Time Out for having me! :)

Congratulations Aimes for the amazing career news! Here's Amy's card that we are CASEing:

What a great card for this time of year! There's many possibilities how to be inspired by this card: Christmas theme, the sentiment, white space, snowflakes, hearts, layout, layers... You name it! Your own twist can be something very simple: maybe changing up the colours a bit, going for flowers instead of snowflakes... No need to stress about it! Just have fun taking TIME OUT and CASEing Amy! :) Let's see what kind of cards the TIME OUT design team members along with guest designer Milla have created for your inspiration. I hope you'll visit Milla's blog Mustesormi and all the DT blogs too!

Now it's your turn to take TIME OUT and CASE Amy! This Challenge runs until 5 pm GMT on 17th of December. We are pretty relaxed here at TIME OUT but please have a look at "How to Play" in the sidebar before linking up. Have fun crafting!